Monday, November 3, 2008

House of Spices makes deal with City

The city has gobbled up another chunk of Willets Point in Queens as Mayor Bloomberg pushes his plan to transform the gritty industrial zone near Shea Stadium.

In the biggest land deal to date in the neighborhood, the city persuaded Indian food distributor House of Spices - the second-largest landowner at Willets Point - to sell its 4 acres, city officials told the Daily News.

The deal is expected to be announced Monday along with an agreement for a third of an acre owned by another company.

Combined with previously inked deals, the city now controls more than 40% of the 62-acre tangle of auto body shops and other businesses - and could soon have half the land.

Of course, the largest and most prosperous businesses still don't have deals. And of course, these businesses are only making deals because they are being threatened with eminent domain. They should remind the city council of that time and again.

He moved to Willets Point because it would be a better location for his business. Now he's basically being forced to move back to his less prosperous location. His employees will probably not be able to commute to the Bronx every day.

Soni moved to the iron triangle because the city gave him a great deal on the land and decades of tax breaks. In fact, Soni has said many times that he never even visited the location before signing. He also had no idea there were no sanitary sewers in the area.

So now he is getting another great deal on land and a great price on his current property. Sounds like capitalism at its best.

EDC man and McShane will have this thread up to 100 before the end of the day writing the same thing over and over and over again and making it look like there are a lot of people that support this disgusting land grab.

Queens will "win" if this development occurs? Win what? A booby prize?

Rare manufacturing space is to be put out of use, and businesses jeopardized.

A hamstrung residential community is to be constructed in an area that is ideally suited for industrial use.

As detailed in the FGEIS document but downplayed during public hearings, the proposed development will admittedly inflict unmitigatable, severe adverse traffic consequences upon residents of the existing, surrounding communities as well as commuters, and will routinely create around-the-clock traffic congestion of the type that presently only exists during rare stadium game times.

Spent jet fuel residue will rain down upon school children, as they play under the runway approach.

The House of Spices sells food products from polluted Junk Yard. Atleast now let them do their food business from clean location. Goog for people who eat their food. Hopefully they don't mess up the new place.

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